Mistress (1): BEATRICE de Valle

From Medlands:

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#RenaudDunstanvilledied1175

daughter of ---. The primary source which confirms her parentage and relationship with Earl Renaud has not yet been identified. The Complete Peerage states that Dugdale "calls her Beatrice de Valle, says she was the mistress of Rainald Earl of Cornwall" and later the wife of William de Briwere, but does not cite a primary source on which this information is based[141]. The chronology does not appear to favour the subsequent marriage of the mistress of Earl Renaud to William de Briwere. The marriages of the latter´s children are recorded in the first decade of the 13th century, their births being therefore estimated to [1180/1195]. Even if Earl Renaud´s mistress gave birth to the earl´s illegitimate son in the last decade of his life (when he would have been in his sixties), it is unlikely that she could have continued bearing children into the mid-1190s.

Renaud Earl of Cornwall had one illegitimate child by Mistress (1):

8. HENRY FitzCount (-on crusade 1222). The 1194/95 Pipe Roll records "Henrico f comitis…in Cassewelle et Depeford" in Devonshire[155]. Constable of Totnes Castle 1209, Governor of Porchester Castle 1211. The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Henricus filius comitis" holding one half of one knight´s fee in Cornwall, and one in Devonshire and 16 "de honore Braynes" in Devonshire, in [1210/12][156]. Sheriff of Cornwall, Constable of Launceston Castl e and Warden of the Stannaries 1215. He was granted the county of Cornwall by King John in 1215, but not the title of Earl. Henry III King of England granted land in Cornwall held by "Reginaldus comes Cornubie pater suus" to "Henrico filio Comitis" dated 7 Feb 1217[157]. He resigned the county in 1220 when he left on crusade[158].

-------------------- Beatrice de Valle1,2

b. circa 1149, d. between 24 March 1216 and 1217

    Beatrice de Valle was said by Dugdale to have been the mistress of Rainald, Earl of Cornwall, and may have been the same lady as Earl Rainald's wife, Beatrice, daughter and heir of William Fitz-Richard.3 She was born circa 1149 at Stoke, Devon, England. She married Lord William de Briwere, son of Henry de Briwere, in 1174 at Stoke, Devon, England.4 Beatrice de Valle died between 24 March 1216 and 1217.

Family

Lord William de Briwere b. circa 1145, d. 1226

Children

   * Isabel de Briwere+ b. c 1184, d. b Jun 12333

   * Grace de Briwere+ b. c 1186, d. 1223

   * Joan de Briwere+ b. c 1190

   * Margaret de Briwere+ b. 1200, d. c 1235

Citations

  1. [S215] Revised by others later George Edward Cokayne CP, XII/2:298, per Dugdale.

  2. [S693] TH.D. Frederick Lewis Weis, Weis: MC 5th ed., pg. 186.

  3. [S215] Revised by others later George Edward Cokayne CP, XII/2:298.

  4. [S682] D.S.O. Lt.-Col. W. H. Turton, Turton, pg. 116.

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Beatrice de Valle was said by Dugdale to have been the mistress of Rainald, Earl of Cornwall, and may have been the same lady as Earl Rainald's wife, Beatrice, daughter and heir of William Fitz-Richard.

She died between 24 March 1216 and 1217.

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